Title - The Trouble with May Amelia Author: Holm, Jennifer Publisher: Atheneum Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A twelve-year-old Finnish American girl growing up on a farm on the Nasel River in 1900 tries to prove to her father that girls are not useless. The plot contains violence. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1720 4.6 860 RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels Sentences Total Words Different Words Max Word/Sent 33 Total # of Words 2841 # of Different Words 850 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 1993 70.2% # of Hi freq words 338 39.8% % of Long Sentences 10 Low Freq occurs 191 6.7% # of Low freq words 123 14.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Unconventional format Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Table of Contents Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Features Character traits Character development Integral Setting - Historical Clear cause/effect Simple Plot Mood/tone First Person Difficult names Foreign words Unconventional punctuation Present Tense Dialect/Accents Topics Work Feelings/Emotions Teasing Danger Jealousy *Careers *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words aarno abide account alongside ambling amelias astoria berle berle's bludgeoned bosie bosie's budging burp buttons's cackles considers content cougar courage decent declares delicious diapers disappointment disown drowned eloping excitedly fella figures firstborn general gillnetter gonna gotta grunts guffaws haired handsome handwriting harbor hinderers hiya holler hollers hollowed holumbo illness invest investors irish irritating ivan kaarlo knit laughter lopsided luggage lutefisk mamma manure marrying mewling mortgage motion nag narrows nasel navigate neighbor's nosy nowhere occasions opinion orient oughta overalls oyster paring pasture pearl perfume petersen poisoned preserved riisipuro riisipuuro rowing scarce schoolhouse scraggly scruffy seventh shanghaied sheeps sisu situated slates smirk sorcerer sorrier soul stalls suppertime swears swept sympathetically tangle upriver wandering wendell's what're whirl widen wilbert would've wrestle wriggling yeast yelp